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BT Announce Faster Broadband for parts of Bristol

by Stephen Hilton 09/07/2009 in Connectivity

Bristol City Council today welcomed BT news that super-fast broadband is to be rolled-out to around 24,000 homes and businesses in and around Bristol.
Three BT exchanges in the city – covering Downend, North Bristol and West Bristol – are among the latest UK locations due to be upgraded next year with super-fast broadband [...]

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Click yourself Fitter with Better Food’s on line Health Campaign

by Stephen Hilton 07/07/2009 in Bristol

BRISTOL’S organic multi-award-winning supermarket, The Better Food Company, is launching a free online Better Health Campaign in July.
The St Werburghs-based supermarket will offer experts’ nutritional tips and recipes, yoga exercises, relaxation techniques and supplement advice to help people get fit for winter.
As well as the online campaign there will be tie-in health offers [...]

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Bristol BarCamp 09, first planning meeting is on 10th July

by Kevin 03/07/2009 in Bristol

What is a BarCamp?  Well, according to Wikipedia
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants

There has been at least one previous BarCamp in Bristol but recently Central and Local Government have also discovered Barcamp.

We are now looking to organise a Bristol BarCamp and the [...]

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Google Finds Local Gov

by Kevin 03/07/2009 in Bristol

Thanks to Dave Briggs for spotting this…
Do you work in local government?
Are you free on 7th August?
Fancy popping down to Victoria in London to visit the Google offices?
Oh, and get to hear from the real experts about how to make the most of Google services, whether search, analytics, maps, advertising, widgetising content, and more?
For the [...]

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Citizen-Driven Innovation in Government IT in Bristol?

by Stephen Hilton 27/05/2009 in Bristol

The Washington D.C.-based Apps for Democracy has a collection of 47 Web, iPhone and Facebook applications for various democracy-related pursuits. Many use the city’s crime, safety, transport, tourism or parking data to create citizen-focussed benefits.
What’s particularly interesting is that these applications were developed by citizens in a competition. Apps for Democracy say they [...]

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Local Gov TV – interview about high-speed broadband developments

by Bryn 27/05/2009 in Connectivity

Has anybody visited LocalGovTV? It’s a really useful online TV channel where you can watch interviews/short films etc about government initiatives.
If like us you are interested in high-speed broadband developments you should watch ‘Engaging communities through high-speed broadband – Interview with Richard Steel, President of Socitm’.
You can go straight to the interview by [...]

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Connect with us on Twitter

by Matt 27/03/2009 in Bristol

We have recently set up our own Twitter. Follow us @ConnectBristol.
We are going to be Twittering about the NextGen Broadband Roadshow in Bristol, March 31st at the Watershed, so if you want to be kept up-to-date regarding the potential of up to 100mb in Bristol please follow us.
We would welcome your questions and comments via [...]

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Is it a School day or a Snow Day?

by Stephen Hilton 05/02/2009 in People

Within 48 hours of bad weather hitting the country Directgov has developed a new website exploring ways of letting parents and carers know if their child’s school has closed.
The school closures site is at http://schoolclosures.org.uk (although is temporarily off line) and is looking for comment from the developer community and the public.

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Who’s who?

by Kevin 05/01/2009 in People

As social networking sites grow in popularity people are waking up to the potential damage that can be done by someone impersonating them online. The latest in a long line of victims is The President of Guyana, who has asked police to investigate who is pretending to be him on Facebook.
Last year a Computer Engineer [...]

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